Chapter 55: The royalty rate of Heartless Mage 3
"Hello everyone. Sorry, it's late. ”
I don't know each other yet, including Han Han, who has only chatted on the Internet, so I can only say hello in general terms.
"Hello hello, it's not late, we live nearby, we arrived early. Come on, come on, sit down. ”
It was Luo Pang who stood up and greeted him, "The young man looks good, he is very energetic, I heard Han Han say that you are studying in Jingying?" Yes, I want to be a big star in the future. ”
Li Jingkun said: "I studied directing. ”
"Director's Department?" Luo Pang said, "That's even more powerful, it's difficult to get into the director department, I know this very well, I went to the advanced class of the Beijing Film Director Department from 03 to 04, I don't know if this is your senior brother?" ”
Yes, Luo Pang is also a movie fan, and once said that he wanted to save Chinese movies. However, he said that making a movie is different from writing a book, it costs a lot of money, and it costs at least three to five million to make a movie that can be released. He himself is not good at "cheating money", so he has never had the opportunity to shoot.
He plans to use the money to shoot after he makes money in the future. But after a few years, I found that Chinese movies are getting better and better, and it seems that he doesn't need to save them?
With Luo Pang here, no one is worried that it will be cold. After greeting Li Jingkun, he asked the waiter to serve the food, and then chatted while eating.
Han Han and Li Jingkun also met for the first time, and they are not familiar with each other. However, Han Han was very curious about Li Jingkun, and he was also very passionate about photography and film, and also asked some things about the campus life of Beijing Film.
But the one who talked the most that night was still Luo Fat, and he talked a lot with Han Han. And the topic is all over the world, one will talk about their English training, the other will talk about Han Han magazine, anyway, where do you want to talk about it.
Li Jingkun is a person with a golden finger, looking at Luo Fat's experience for most of his life, it can be said that he is a tragic hero, with the free and easy character that most straight men want to have, but almost everything will end in failure.
Such a stubborn idealist to do business?
"I don't think you talk much, and you drink too little." Luo Pang said to him.
"I rarely drink." Li Jingkun said.
"You don't drink, do you? If you don't know how to drink, drink less and eat more. Luo Pang said.
"Okay."
"What is your current royalty rate?" Han Han said.
"Fifteen percent."
Yes, it's 15% since Heartless Mage 3.
The 5th book of the next semester is over, and the series is over, and it's time to prepare for the next book.
However, the sales of the latter few books are not particularly high, basically similar to the first two, both of which are more than 400,000 copies. In other words, after the last three books are sold, the after-tax income is about 4 million.
With money, in addition to buying a 200,000 camera, he went to buy a house again, this time he bought three sets in one go, but only one of these three sets can make a down payment of 30%.
There's no way, I don't have the heart or time to make other investments now, and I can't let the money go, so I can only buy a house.
Besides, next year, he won't have the opportunity to buy a house in Kyoto so chic, and there will be more and more restrictions later, so he can only stock up on a few sets first.
"Fifteen percent? Yes, he is the top writer in China. Luo Pang was a little surprised, he didn't expect Li Jingkun to be so powerful. The 15% royalty rate is considered the treatment of first-line writers in any country.
Han Han also had that meaning, but he knew more about it, and felt that Li Jingkun's achievements were indeed worth the royalty rate.
Because he has a fan base and has a stable book publishing, unlike him, basically he himself doesn't know when his next book will be written.
However, in fact, his royalty rate is higher than Li Jingkun's, and the sales and income of a book are also higher than him.
"I'm going to publish a magazine, so I can write one for us when I have time." Han Han said.
"I rarely write articles, usually novels." Li Jingkun said.
"Novels are okay, I've read Ling's "Heartless Mage", and it's very well written." Han Han said.
"Okay, I'll send it to you when I'm done." Li Jingkun said, "You should have received a lot of manuscripts, right? ”
"It's a lot, I can't finish it." Han Han said, "In fact, the content of the first issue has been selected, and even the layout has been done, but for some reason it can't be listed yet." ”
“…… So even if I finish writing, it's the second issue at most? Li Jingkun said.
"It should be." Han Han said, "It's okay, right? The second issue is also very good, you write a little more, and the next few issues will be serialized for you. ”
“……”
Li Jingkun feels that he doesn't need to write, and you have an issue of your magazine!
They ate for a long time, and the rest of the story was mainly chatting. Luo Pang also asked if he wanted to change the scene and continue playing, but Han Han said that he had something to do later, and he was going to leave after eating.
Luo Pang suddenly realized "oh", and jokingly said that young people should also be a little more restrained.
Li Jingkun guessed that he came to find a girlfriend, or brought his girlfriend to Kyoto to play. I just don't know how many girlfriends he has now?
Hu Yunying once talked about the interesting stories of several popular writers in an interview. She said that Han Han was romantic, and Guo Siwei was shrewd.
The teenage Han Han once mysteriously told her how he stabilized several girlfriends at the same time so that they would not become suspicious.
Li Jingkun said, I also want to know.
Ahem, just kidding.
However, Han Han is also very generous to his girlfriend, and it is said that the girls who have been with him will at least give her a house in the end.
At ten o'clock, when they were about to leave, Luo Pang called the waiter in to pay the bill, but the waiter said that the gentleman had already bought it just now.
The waiter was talking about Li Jingkun, and they were all a little surprised. Luo Pang immediately said: "This is not suitable, how can you pay for it!" ”
Li Jingkun said: "It's okay, the first time we met, I should be invited." ”
Alas, it's not that I'm sorry to let you please. English training also loses money, right?
Besides, it's just the price of a meal. After having some money, most of the money he paid for going out to eat with friends was paid by him, and he had some habits to pay the bills.
"I'll go first, I'll get in touch when I'm free."
Li Jingkun was embarrassed to be polite to them, and walked in front from just now.
"Yes, your little brother is very generous, quite a good young man." Luo Pang said to Han Han.
“…… Today is also the first time we have met. Han Han said, "The previous editor liked him very much and said that he was very talented, so I wanted to meet him." ”
……
After seeing Luo Pang and Han Han, Li Jingkun was quite touched. Han Han won't say it, he is a winner in life. Luo Pang has worked hard for most of his life, and he doesn't feel like he has made much money, but he has caused a lot of things. Word of mouth has a mixed reputation.
But a mouth can really speak, and eloquence is definitely the kind of person who has few opponents.